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Quick question in regards to the last step you mention: finding the spammy links. When examining my own site, I discovered that I have about 20 unsolicited links that are from an unrelated industry blog. Looks pretty spammy to me, and I'm wondering what your recommendation is? Should I ask the site owner to remove them? To me, they look like they could have easily been a part of a paid link campaign, and although I know that's not the case, Google won't. Thoughts? August 18, 2010

Maybe for a simple, informational site, you provide options for users on how they want to receive information from you. So, either signup for an email newsletter or 'share this' via popular social media channels...? I agree with you, applying this concept to a non-ecommerce site, or whatever, presents more of a challenge.

I do, however, see that the 'anchoring' idea can be applied easily with Feedburner, etc. for an informational site.

Thank you for your post! I have had several pesky habitual follow, unfollow, refollowers and I couldn't figure out why they were stalking me! HannahS is right- once I reported them as spam, they're blocked from this activity. Good luck with your tweeting! April 07, 2010